Call for papers: Digital Humanities: Now and beyond Submission deadline: February 1, 2014 Publication deadline: Fall 2014 Editors: Mia Rendix (Aalborg University, Denmark), Ditte Laursen (State Media Archive, Denmark) When the American scholars Jeffrey Schnapp and Todd Presner launched their influential and controversial ‘Digital Humanities Manifesto’ in 2009, it heralded a new age in the humanities. In 2011, Europe published a ‘Manifest for the Digital Humanities’, which was developed during the ThatCamp conference in France. Despite their rhetorical, instrumental, and transatlantic differences, it was clear that digitization had entered the realm of the humanities for good. Due to the technological improvements and far-reaching possibilities presented by the internet, digitization fundamentally challenged and altered the ways in which we organize our universities, create new institutional models, and ultimately how we think about and perform basic humanities research.
From its inception, however, the term ‘digital humanities’ has been a hypernym covering several factions and methodological and theoretical approaches. It thus remains widely debated and constantly negotiated. In addition, discussion as to whether digital humanities is or should be regarded as autonomous or whether it should interact or interrelate with the traditional humanities has been a constant source of conflict between different – and often ideological – discourses.
MedieKultur welcomes both theoretical and empirical articles on the current and future versions, perspectives, and/or problems of digital humanities. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: – What have we learned from the digital humanities so far? – What is the future of the digital humanities? – How does the digital influence research practice in the humanities— as source, as method, as tool, and as means of enforced communication? – What new questions and approaches does the digital enable within the humanities? – How do archival means of collecting and making available digital data affect the scholarly use of this data within the humanities? – How do the digital and the non-digital differ, and how can new constellations of the digital and the non-digital within the humanities be conceptualized? – In what way does the digital humanities represent a national-regional or universal vision? – How can new digital infrastructures be incorporated into and implemented on the institutional level? More information: http://ojs.statsbiblioteket.dk/index.php/mediekultur/announcement/view/225 -- Ditte Laursen Senior researcher, Ph.D. STATSBIBLIOTEKET / STATE AND UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Universitetsparken Dk - 8000 Århus C Tlf. / Phone +45 89462060 CVR / SE / VAT No. DK 10100682 - EAN 5798000791084 http://statsbiblioteket.dk http://pure.au.dk/portal/en/dla@statsbiblioteket.dk